title: [Idiopathic hypereosinophilia syndrome].
abstract: The author describes a case of rare idiopathic hypereosinophilia demonstrated by a 26 years old man. General symptoms were founded 4 years before and now disease takes a progressive course including a rapid decrease of visual functions. Several alterations of organic findings were also found in heart, liver, lung, spleen and brain. A marked musculatur dystrophia in regions of upper arms and calf muscles was demonstrated by the young man. Using ophthalmoscope infarctions, edema and hemorrhage in the retina were found, also new growth of vessels, hemorrhage into the vitreous body and detachment of retina.
authors.affiliation: Augenklinik, Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gornig
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Merrem
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Ein Beitrag zum idiopathischen hypereosinophilem Syndrom.